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Cisco (News - Alert) has introduced a next-generation mobile end-to-end IP architecture and expanded its ASR Series portfolio with the introduction of the Cisco ASR 5000, which involves technology the company acquired through the Starent deal.

 

The architecture spans 2G/3G/4G mobile networks and provides greater intelligence to enhance the user experience, while decreasing operating and capital expenditures across the network, according to Cisco. As for the ASR 5000, it’s the centerpiece of this new architecture and is among the products managed by the company’s new Cisco Mobile Internet Telephony (News - Alert) Group, of which former Starent leader Ashraf Dahod is the head.

 

In other Cisco news today, the company announced the results of the its Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Forecast for 2009-2014.

 

The forecast indicates that global mobile data traffic increased 160 percent over the past year to 90 petabytes per month, or the equivalent of 23 million DVDs. During the five-year forecast period, global mobile data traffic is projected to increase by a factor of 39 and reach 3.6 exabytes per month by 2014. The report also concludes that, global mobile data traffic is growing 2.4 times faster than global fixed broadband data traffic.